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Mobilizing for a Climate Moonshot

Governments can accomplish remarkable things when they have not been hollowed out in the name of misguided "free-market" ideology. Now that humankind is confronting the existential challenge of climate change, our survival depends on reclaiming the public spirit of the Apollo program – and the hope it inspired.

LONDON – The 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing in July reinforced an important lesson: one of humankind’s greatest feats occurred when imagination, common purpose, and a systemic approach to problem solving won out over siloed thinking and anxiety about where the money would come from. As US President John F. Kennedy made clear in 1961, going to the moon would cost money and entail risks, but it would be well worth it.

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